Chapter 216. for the relief of the Savings Bank of Santa Rosa, California
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CHAP. 216.— An Act for the relief of the Savings Bank of Santa Rosa, California.June 13, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Savings Bank, Santa Rosa, California. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to pay to the Savings 708 Bank of Santa Rosa the sum of one thousand and sixty-two dollars and Duplicate check.twenty cents, upon a duplicate check to be drawn in lieu of check numbered thirty-three thousand two hundred and fifty-two, drawn and dated the twenty-ninth of June, eighteen hundred and eighty, on the United States Assistant Treasurer at San Francisco, California, and numbered thirty-three thousand two hundred and fifty-two, payable to the order of one James M, Samuels, and indorsed by said James M.
Samuels to the said Savings Bank of Santa Rosa, said check being signed by W. H. Payne United States pension agent at San Francisco, California ; which said cheek it is claimed was lost on being sent by said Savings Bank of Santa Rosa to the Anglo-California Bank, Limited, at San Francisco, and was never received by the said Anglo California *Provisos.*Bank, Limited: *Provided,* That before the payment hereinbefore authorised the Secretary of the Treasury shall be satisfied that said check has not been paid: *And provided further,* That said duplicate check may be paid upon and after compliance with the regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, under section thirty-six hundred and [R.
S. 3646, 717](/us/rs/t3646/717).forty six of the Revised Statutes of the United States, in cases where the amount of the draft is not over one thousand dollars, though the amount of said duplicate check exceeds that sum, but not otherwise. Section. 2.—That if said W. H. Payne, who issued said check shall be dead or no longer in the service of the United States when said duplicate is applied for, the proper accounting officer, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall have prescribed, shall state an account in favor of the owner of said check for the amount thereof, and charge such amount to the account of such officer or agent, as is [R.
S. 3647, 718](/us/rs/t3647/718).provided by section thirty-six hundred and forty-seven of the Revised Statutes of the United States in eases where the amount for which the last cheek was drawn was not over one thousand dollars. Approved, June 13, 1882.